Hanover Insurance News

Hanover Insurance Taps Roche for CEO as Zubretsky Departs for Molina

The Hanover Insurance Group announced Tuesday that John C. Roche has been appointed president and chief executive officer, effective Nov. 4, succeeding Joseph M. Zubretsky. The news came about a half hour before Molina Healthcare announced that Zubretsky was stepping …

The Hanover’s Chaucer Acquires SLE Holdings, Sydney-Based MGA

The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. announced that Chaucer, the company’s international specialty insurance group, has acquired SLE Holdings, a market-leading Lloyd’s managing general underwriting agency based in Sydney, Australia. SLE, which currently underwrites business exclusively in Australia, wrote approximately U.S. …

The Hanover & Chaucer Launch Dublin-Based International Specialty Insurer

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. and its subsidiary, Chaucer, announced that they will form a Dublin-based company, Chaucer Insurance Co. DAC (Chaucer Dublin), to write international specialty insurance business. The Central Bank of Ireland has approved the new venture. “Chaucer …

Liberty Law School in Virginia Demands Lawsuit Coverage From Hanover

Liberty University’s law school wants a judge to force its insurance company to pay for its defense in a lawsuit stemming from a same-sex-marriage custody battle. Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly reports that the school claims in Lynchburg federal court in Virginia …

The Never Ending Snoball Fight

Snowfall in Southern Louisiana is a rarity, but one doozy of a snowball fight has been ongoing since at least 2006 and has resulted in four separate lawsuits, now consolidated in the United States District Court for the Eastern District …

Hanover Insurance Executive Elected Co-Chair of Anti-Fraud Coalition

Frank Sztuk of Hanover Insurance was elected co-chair of the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud at the public-interest group’s annual membership meeting last week. Sztuk is Hanover’s National Special Investigation Unit (SIU) strategist and has chaired the Massachusetts fraud bureau. He …